Almost 40 years after Wham! released “Last Christmas,” it has finally become the No. 1 song on the United Kingdom‘s Top 40 music list. The classic holiday break-up song was performed by the late ...

It turns out the Christmas chart is a real thing in the United Kingdom – not something made up for the classic film “Love Actually” – and a certain beloved band has topped it this year with one of ...

Wham!’s “Last Christmas” has become a holiday standard over its 40 years in release — not just because of the extraordinary success of the original 1984 recording by the pop duo (George Michael and ...

Last weekend, a DJ caused a stir in Britain after playing the hit Wham! song "Last Christmas" at a soccer game in front of about 60,000 people. A week earlier, another DJ had done the same at a match ...

On the first day of Whamageddon, my true love gave to me... Noise-cancelling headphones? A ticket to Antarctica — or some other place with no reception? Something, anyway, to lessen the chances of ...

A display of a smartphone shows the British group Wham! and the name of their song "Last Christmas". Wham! have emerged victorious in the race for Germany's Christmas number one, narrowly pipping ...

Andrew Ridgeley finds “Last Christmas” as inescapable as you do at the holidays. The Wham! star is calling via video from Central London, where “the pedicabs are playing it, so it’s a constant ...

It’s a hot topic for Christmas music lovers every year: What’s the most popular Christmas song? It’s an opinion-based question, but if you’re measuring each song based on profitability, there’s a ...

In 1983, George Michael set a goal for himself. He gave himself a songwriting exercise: he’d write a Christmas song. And he wanted a No. 1 hit. “He wanted a definitive Wham! Christmas offering,” ...